Bathing suit



Sept; 15, 1931. F. o. DONNER BATHING SUIT Filed Oct. 18, 1929 Z van/fa r: fife/ark; aiwazl-zanner Patented Sept. 15, 1931 suit.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FRIEDRICH OSWALD DONNER, OF GHEMNITZ, GERMANY BATHING SUIT Application filed October 18, 1929, Serial No.

The present invention relates to a bathing Plaited fabricswhose insides consist, for example, of wool or cotton while the outside is made up from artificial silk threads use of plaited fabrics for bathing suits offers special advantages compared with single layer fabrics, and the invention consists in producing bathin suits from threads having difierent properties and in connecting the threads so that the body of a person wearing a bathing suit made according to the present invention will lose its moisture more rapidly and uniformly than if clad in an ordinary bathing suit. All existing kinds of bathing suits suffer from the drawback that the moisture evaporates too slowly on the inside so that the drying air has to penetrate to the still wet body in order dry the'latter, while, according to the present invention, the inside .of the suit is produced from a fiber keeping the moisture less well than the outside so that the moisture of the inside passes to the outside layer to the extent as the moisture con and the outside of artificial silk which readily I deflects the wind so that the air will notbe caught as easily as in rougher fabrics and cool oif the body excessively. Moreover, the greater density of the plaited fabric will of course offer greater protection against dirt and sand. e

-One embodiment of the invention is illusitnated in the accompanying drawings, in

which Figure 1 is a view of the bathing suit 400,651, and in Germany November 6, 1928.

made according to theinvention and Fig. 2, a view of the manner of weave.

Referring to the drawings, the inside 1 of the bathing suit 2 consists of pure, preferably white, wool threads 3 which can be so impregnated that they are water-shedding. 4 are artificial silk threads of fancy color arranged on the outside of the suit 2. The two threads 3 and 4 form a double layer fabric which can be produced on a knitting machine, whereby the threads are plaitcd togci her in known manner. Each row of the fabric consists of the two threads 3 and 4, but

the latter threads are in every row arranged. in such a manner that all the threads 8 are Visible on one side of the fabric and all the threads 4 visible on the other side. In the production of bathing suits of such materials, they are so produced that the threads 3 are on the inside of the suit and the threads 4 on the outside of the suit. In this manner a neat appearance of the suit can be combined with perfect fulfilment of all sanitary requirements which demand that colored fabrics be kept away from portions of the body that may have become sore. The outside of the suit may be patterned in any desired manner as indicated in the drawings by the ornamental stripe 5.

The bathing suit according to the invention can be-produced either by plaiting the threads or by combining several. layers of fabric possessing different properties by sewing or the like, the essential feature being that the inside is made from a kind of fiber adapted to pass moisture readily to the outside of the fabric, the outside fibers absorbing moisture more easily than those of the inside.

The invention is' applicable not only to suits worn for swimming or other aquatic sports but also to suits consisting of one or more parts worn in air baths and for general gymnastic and athletic purposes so as to protect the wearers against colds when perspiring or being exposed to rain.

I claim 1. A bathing suit comprising an inner and an outer surface made from threads of different fibers, the fibers forming the said inner surface being adapted to pass moisture readily to the fibers forming the said outer; surface and being interconnected, the fibers of the outer sur ace being adapted to take up water more readily than the fibers of the inner surface.

2. A bathing suit com risin an inner-and an outer surface made from t reads of different fibers, the fibers forming the said inner surface being adapted to pass moisture readily to the fibers forming the said outer surface and being interconnected, the inside threads being of'wool and the outside threads being of artificial silk, and the fibersof the outer surface being-adapted to take up water more readily than the fibers of the inner surface.

3.'A bathing suit comprising an inner knitted surface, and anouter'knitted surface the surfaces being composed of different threads which are plaited one above the other to form a fabrichaving the outer surface of one kind of thread and the inner surface of another kind of thread and the inner surface being adapted to pass moisture readily to the outer surface, the fibers of the outer surface being adapted to take uprwater more readily 7 than the fibers of the inner surface.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature.

. FRIEDRICH OSWALD BONNER. 

